Chandra Shekhar Sharma’s Agra home is a thriving ecosystem of 400 plant varieties. As a result, the temperature inside his home remain 4 to 5 degrees cooler
Four friends quit the corporate world to begin their own initiative of direct-to-consumer, farm-fresh produce through agronomy and hydroponic technology.
8000 plastic bottles filled with plastic waste is required to make one such greenhouse. Now imagine the volumes of plastic bottles and waste that can be upcycled through this simple technique!
“Our greenhouse cuts off excess heat by 2-4 degrees Celsius, reduces pests by 90% and saves 98% water when compared to open-field conventional irrigation." #Startups #FarmersFirst
US President Trump has announced the withdrawal of the US from the Paris Agreement committed to reduce climate change. India on the other hand continues to show its key player status in the matter.
Inspired by the Cuban system of organopónicos, Homecrop, a startup founded by Manvitha Reddy, is setting up modular vegetable gardens on rooftops around Hyderabad.
Nature has its own, little-known, immune system to combat climate change. It is the barrel-shaped, Jellyfish-like Salp that swallows the earth's Carbon and safely deposits it at the bottom of the ocean.